The route to true happiness is by understanding impermanence

"The Buddha was... promising salvation...through the embrace of the very stuff that will destroy us. The route to true happiness, he argued, was to achieve a visceral understanding of impermanence, which would take you off the emotional roller coaster and allow you to see your dramas and desires through a wider lens.Waking up to the reality of our situation allows you to , as the Buddhists say, "let go," to drop your "attachments." As one Buddhist writer put it, the key is to recognize the "wisdom of insecurity.""

- 10% Happier by Dan Harris